Barack Obama Quotes
You have people around the country who are benefitting from the steps that we've taken [with Obamacare] and as long as they continue to get helped, then at least I'll know in my own mind that the work we did here had a lasting impact.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
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People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.
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You have to believe. You have to stick to your guns.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.
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I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.
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You have people around the country who are benefitting from the steps that we've taken [with Obamacare] and as long as they continue to get helped, then at least I'll know in my own mind that the work we did here had a lasting impact.
